Department Seminars

"TGIF" -- Spring 2012, in Room POST 723, Fridays at 3:30pm (*):

Date	Speaker	Affiliation	Topic
1/20/2012	Paul Lucey	HIGP	The Coolest Place in the Solar System
1/27/2012	Ray Pierrehumbert	University of Chicago	Cumulative Carbon and Anthropocene Climate Protection: Do Methane and Black Carbon Really Matter?
2/3/2012	Tom Olszewski	Texas A&M	What Does the Fossil Record of the Permian Reef of West Texas Tell Us About How Complex Ecological Communities Respond to Environmental Change?
2/10/2012	Brian Schubert	G&G	Climate Reconstructions from a New Analysis of Tree Rings
2/17/2012	Harm Van Avendonk	Univ. Texas at Austin (GeoPRISMS speaker)	The Life Cycle of Rifted Margins
2/24/2012	Samuel Gray	CGGVeritas (SEG Distinguished Lecture)	A Brief History of Depth... and Time Seismic Imaging
3/2/2012	John Sinton	G&G	The Enigmatic Kaena Ridge, Hawaii
3/9/2012	Benedicte Dousset	HIGP	Urban Heat Waves
3/16/2012	Ben Brooks	HIGP	The Smoking Gun: Great Earthquakes in the Andean Backarc
3/23/2012	Steven Stanley	G&G	A Reassessment of the Intensities of the Great Phanerozoic Mass Extinctions: These Crises Weren't as Severe as People Have Believed!
3/30/2012	Spring Break		No Seminar
4/6/2012	HOLIDAY		No Seminar
4/13/2012	Miriam Riner	HIGP	Mercury - Earth's suffocating little sibling. The geochemical and geophysical implications of an oxygen-starved planet.
4/20/2012	Janet Becker	G&G	Water Level Effects on Wave-Driven Inundation: Marshall Islands
4/27/2012	Rob Wright	HIGP	The Thermal Hyperspectral Imager (THI): an Instrument for Remote Sensing of Earth's Surface from a Micro-Satellite Platform

Also see the SOEST Bulletin for schedule updates.